Holladay DVM

Heth Jackson Hill lived in a modest three bedroom, on the outskirts of Salina, Kansas. Then, he goes on a seemingly innocent business trip to Grenada and his life changes forever. Opening his luggage, only to discover it full of bags of money, he is immediately rendered unconscious, and awakens in the ocean, twenty feet down and sinking fast.Fighting for his life, he is stranded in the water for days, until he is finally discovered by the crew of a freighter. After he becomes strong enough, the captain forces him to work, as part of the crew, until the chief engineer is injured during a storm and Heth manages to repair the damaged engine.Approached by another member of the crew, he learns that there are two people onboard who do not belong there, hiding unseen. When they are revealed to be couriers, being smuggled into Lebanon, Heth is taken captive by the men. Can he escape? Will he survive? And what is the endgame that so many are involved in?

Daniel R Holladay DVM is a native Tennessean, a multi-degreed historian, mathematician, chemist, Veterinarian, Public Health Officer for the USDA, ex law enforcement, Federal Investigator and full-time author. He worked as a cancer researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Oak Ridge, TN, then spent 20 years as a Federal Investigator, and eight years as a Deputy Sheriff. He has been a hunter, a tennis player for more than thirty years, and a University Tennis Coach. Daniel has traveled extensively in the United States and Western Europe. His many life experiences, his childhood in the countryside of West Tennessee and his extensive formal education have provided him with the expertise to write this book, to entertain, teach and involve the reader, with accuracy, emotion and wit. Holladay has one son, who works in the Department of State and a wife of nearly 50 years. He considers the writing process a pleasure and hopes to enlighten and entertain a broad demographic with his work.